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EF0 tornado in Howell County, Missouri

Tornado January 8, 2008 · Howell County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that a weak EF-0 tornado briefly touched down in a rural area in western Howell County. Two outbuildings were damaged and a mobile home sustained minor damage.

The wider storm

An unusual mid winter tornado outbreak occurred over southwest and central Missouri. 31 tornadoes struck the region within a 15 hour time frame on 7 January into early morning 8 January. Two tornadoes intensified to EF-3 status while five tornadoes caused EF-2 damage. All other tornadoes during this outbreak were surveyed and given EF-0 and EF-1 status. Multiple training supercells spawned most of these tornadoes that occurred along the Interstate 44 corridor. Toward the end of this episode, a broken squall line spawned numerous EF-0 and EF-1 tornadoes across the southern Missouri Ozarks.

Began near Pottersville (36.7568, -91.9931).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

31 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 73785. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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